Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-02
GENERAL STONE.
Death Of the Distinguished Engineer
and Soldier.

Desth Of the Distinguished Ensines,
and Soldier.
NEW YORK, January 29.-Gsn. Charles
P. Stone died yesterday at the homo o
Daniel Harnett, 20 East Thirty first street
His death was unexpected, but for the last
year his health has not been good, and hia
lsystem was not in q condition to stand a
severe attack. The final arrangements at
tendant upon the unyeiling of the Statue
OF Liberty were made personally by him.
The strain was q severe one, and many oi
his friends who saw him when he rode at
the head OF the long procession in the
heavy rain of October 28th, remarked
that he looked tired and worn.
Charles p. Stone was born in Greenfield,
Mass, in 1926. He graduated from West
Point and entered the army as an ordnance
officer. He served with distinction during
the Mexican War. but resigned from the
army in 1852. At the outbreak ofthe Civil
War he offered his ervices to the Govern
ment and was made Colonel the Four
teenth Infantry in May. 1861, and inmedi-
ately afterward brevetted Br1gadier. Gener-
al OF Volunteers. He was in command of
the Union forces in the disastrous affair at
Balls Bluff, in which Col. E D. Baker was
killed. For his conduct on that occasion
he was accused oftreachery and imprisoned
in Fort Lafayette from February to Au-
gust, 1862. On his release he was ordered
to duty in the Department of the Gull, and
took part in the siege and capture OF Port
Hudson. He became Chief OF staff to Gen.
Banks. He commanded q brigade OF the
Fifth Corps before Petersburg. Hsresigned
in September, 1864. In 1870 Gen. Stone
entered the service OF the Khedive OF
Egypt, where he remained for nearly ten
years, receiving the title OF Pasha. After
his return to this country Gen. Stone on.
gagged in business as q civil engineer, and
when the Bartho:di statue project took
shape, he was selected to superintend it's
duties connected with what was really a
stupenduous task, the suct essful erection OF
the statue without accident or mishap OF
any kind bears ample testimony.
General Sherman, speaking to the Grant
Post of the Grand Army of tho Republic at
Brooklyn to night, said: ''Ins Grand
army Of the Republic is founded On three
cardinal virtues, charity, loyalty and fra
ternity. Loyalty was burnt in them by the
post, which shines above me in letters Of
light, shines over the whole earth. Al |
though he 10 entombed, he is living |
thought to us all-our brother yet. I bsar |
another sad message to you, and to the list |
OF dead must be added that of Gen. Stone,
who died to-day, One week ago he was
alive and well and WAS preparing to go to
New Orleans to make some money in which
he stood sadly in need. Two days later he
was taken sick and medical aid could not
save him. He was q comrads of Lincoln
Post. knew him thirty years ago. He
came out of the Mexican war with honor
and then went to California. When the
Civil war broke out he was in Washington,
and he was the first soldier sworn into the
volunteer army. After some months of
service he was imprisoned in Fort Lafay-
stte, and to this day he has never learned
the reason why. A year later he was re-
eased and went with Banks up the Red
liver and served to the end of the war. He
hen went to Egypt and became chief of
'taf. On his return to this country he
aid the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
We have 30O, 900 men in the Grand Army,
ZACH with an hosorable recosd. No matter Is
vhat their rank, all are upon . perfect
'quality.